FINAL FANTASY VII
Give it 3 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 4 reviews are negative (27%); after 35h it's 1 in 40 (3%).
- Fully opens up by hour 35.
- 13% of players who start reach the ending.
- Most players drop off before “End of Part I” (Complete the first part of the game): only 23% of starters get there.
- 87% of owners got the first achievement.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 30,494 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 54.8h for positive, 18h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (87.2% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- End of Part I Complete the first part of the game Most players quit here 23% −77
- End of Part II Complete the second part of the game 18% −5
- End of Game Complete FINAL FANTASY VII 13% −5
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (36)
story milestone ending side
- Won 1st battle Win your first battle 100%
- Braver Use Cloud's 1st limit 88%
- Big Shot Use Barret's 1st limit 87%
- Beat Rush Use Tifa's 1st limit 66%
- Healing Wind Use Aeris's 1st limit 57%
- Sled Fang Use Red XIII's 1st limit 46%
- Yuffie Get Yuffie on your team 32%
- Vincent Get Vincent on your team 27%
- Battle Square Start a battle in the Battle Square 26%
- Greased Lightning Use Yuffie’s 1st limit 26%
- Dice Use Cait Sith's 1st limit 25%
- End of Part I Complete the first part of the game 23%
- Boost Jump Use Cid's 1st limit 23%
- Galian Beast Use Vincent's 1st limit 21%
- Master Materia Reach the maximum level of any Materia 21%
- Diamond Weapon Defeat the Diamond Weapon 19%
- End of Part II Complete the second part of the game 18%
- Bahamut Zero Get materia Bahamut Zero 17%
- Omnislash Get Cloud's last Limit Break 17%
- Ultimate Weapon Defeat the Ultimate Weapon 14%
- End of Game Complete FINAL FANTASY VII 13%
- Gold Chocobo Get a Gold Chocobo 12%
- Knights of the Round Get materia Knights of the Round 12%
- Slots Get Cait Sith's last Limit Break 10%
- Catastrophe Get Barret's last Limit Break 9.9%
- Chaos Get Vincent's last Limit Break 9.6%
- Cosmo Memory Get Red XIII's last Limit Break 9.3%
- Final Heaven Get Tifa's last Limit Break 9.3%
- Great Gospel Get Aeris's last Limit Break 8.8%
- All Creation Get Yuffie's last Limit Break 8.6%
- Highwind Get Cid's last Limit Break 8.1%
- Top Level Reach level 99 with any character 7.6%
- Emerald Weapon Defeat the Emerald Weapon 6.3%
- Ruby Weapon Defeat the Ruby Weapon 5.7%
- Master of Gil 99,999,999 Gil 5.4%
- Materia Overlord Master all Materias 4.2%